knowledge

"You cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on 'seeing through' things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it."

"Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know."

"Passion for knowledge, motivation for continuous learning."

"Learning from Experience Learning from experience means, 'Boy, did I just fuck up!"

"Praise be to God I’m not good,And have the natural egotism of flowersAnd rivers following their bedPreoccupied without knowing itOnly with blooming and flowing.This is the only mission in the World,This—to exist clearly,And to know how to do it without thinking about it.)"

"Preparation [10w] Hope for the best, but prepare for your insufferable wife."

"Mingling Defined [10w] Superficial people engaging with superficial people on a superficial level."

"A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who comes to the house is a heavenly messenger, who brings the panis angelorum."

"Ideas are the source of all things"

"In an age when mass pleasures like television are becoming more feeble and homogeneous, the very act of discrimination becomes a form of protest. At a time when mass marketing of food produces a product so disgusting that it has to be wrapped in distracting gimmicks to be sold, the mere fact of paying attention to what you eat and drink and telling the truth about taste is a revolutionary act."

"I would teach how science works as much as I would teach what science knows. I would assert (given that essentially, everyone will learn to read) that science literacy is the most important kind of literacy they can take into the 21st century. I would undervalue grades based on knowing things and find ways to reward curiosity. In the end, it's the people who are curious who change the world."

"What is now proved was once only imagined."

"In and Out [10w] Our infant blanket in the externalization of our mother's womb.ღ ♛ ღ ♛ ღ ♛ ღ ♛ ღ Intruth, we should be married under,sling our newborn babiesinand after deathbe shrouded in the same infant blanketwe were taken home from the hospital in."

"I don’t know what I’ll do until I know what you’ll do. I’m proactive with my preemptive reactive strategy."

"I definitely learned a lesson this time. I know that I can be broken. I am not as tough as I thought. I see it now. At this point, it's the only thing good that came out of all of this. I know myself better now and know what I have to do."

"Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves."

"If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose."

"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."

"In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but we create them. We haunt ourselves."

"There is no greater power than the one others do not believe you possess."